my first ever shaker card.....

Good morning everyone I hope your all well and happy, we had wall to wall sunshine yesterday but its still very chilly, we either have rain, hail or cold sunshine...has anyone told the weather fairy its April yet......welcome to our Mo's Digital Pencil Dreamteams monthly blog hop...our host this month is the fabulously talented Heidy, you should have arrived here from the lovely DEBBIE'S blog, if you didn't you can hop on over to Heidy's to start at the beginning as you dont want to miss the chance to win do you...the theme this month is to make a Shaker card and I had never ever made one would you believe...no matter how hard I tried I couldn't think of what to use...so a quick question, how do you get your inspiration, I'm curious because mine comes to me in the weirdest ways...take this card I was really struggling with a shaker card and was up and down yesterday trying to think of something, we have a saying in the North East that my lovely MIL is always saying to me and it popped into my head its 'your arse is making buttons' lol... it just mean that your fidgeting trying to decide to do something...as soon as I thought it this idea popped into my mind to use buttons and yes it really shakes, it makes a brilliant noise too...I used this amazingly cute On The Pot Boy image from Mo's Digital Pencil, isn't his face just brilliant, I coloured him with distress inks and teamed him up with some lush papers from the gorgeous Echo Park-This and That charming 6x6 paper pad from Bunny Zoe's crafts...I added loads and loads of buttons, a knot and a tag with a Kaisercraft sentiment to finish...the sketch is from the Simon Says Stamp challenge and I'm also entering it for the Crafty Sentiments challenge too...the next stop on this brilliant hop is to the lovely POP'S who has something stunning to show you, don't forget to leave everyone a comment because you could win one of two $5 vouchers for Mo's Digital Pencil....I'm off out today for the whole day, I was supposed to go to the Belfast Show but don't think I will have time too but will explain all about it on Saturday, big news and explanations oh and don't forget I will have candy this weekend too...whatever your up to today have a fantastic one and enjoy the rest of the hop
Mina xxx

distress ink colours used
skin - antique linen, frayed burlap, tattered rose
hair - antique linen
t shirt - pine needles
socks - scattered straw
pot - shabby shutters
book - shabby shutters, scattered straw